A court in Marseilles said Daniele Canarelli, 58, had
committed a "grave error" by failing to recognize the public danger
posed by Joel Gaillard, her patient of four years.

Gaillard hacked to death 80-year-old Germain Trabuc
with an axe in March 2004 in Gap, in the Alps region of southeastern
France, 20 days after fleeing a consultation with Canarelli at
Marseilles's Edouard Toulouse hospital.

Canarelli was handed a one-year prison sentence and
ordered to pay 8,500 euros to the victim's children, in the first case
of its kind in France. Defense lawyers said the ruling would have
serious repercussions for treatment of the mentally ill.

I'd like to know more details about the case, but this seems on its face a bit heavy handed (what happened to the United States being the overly-aggressive, prosecutor-oriented bad guy?)